Ruffin v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Conviction of murder, punishment ten years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and deceased were brothers, both married and living not far apart on their father’s farm. We gather from the record that deceased had not finished gathering his crop when appellant turned a cow into the field in which both had farmed that year. Deceased came to appellant’s house; they had hot words, following which deceased returned hastily to his home near by, according to the testimony of appellant and his witness, Jones, threatening to get his gun and come back and kill appellant. Jones and…